6 of the Luton Goodgym faithful got stuck in at the last of 6 cooking sessions at the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat Gudwara, where the Aunties at the temple were holding cooking classes with other community organisations. Our troops got stuck in with the washing up as huge pans were coming from the stove to the sinks. Others were helping to make roti and Cooke the curry. As always Goodgymers are made to feel at home at the temple with a sample of the delights cooked that evening. Everyone enjoyed themselves and we made friends with the Someries Rotary Club, an organisation we may be able to collaborate with in the future. Great work on this task 👏 👍🏻 👌

We have done such a wonderful task to help Easter celebrations for aome of the older folk with wonderful people. We hope you've had a wonderful Easter those who celebrated . Happy Easter 🐰 🐣 😀

Another fun afternoon and evening at FoodCycle today - and it was Faith's first time helping at this project. We hope she enjoyed the session as much as the three regulars did.

Gill was on the early shift as she had helped with the food collection and was on hand to open up the hall and get things started. With lots of part baked bread and frozen pastry she started on prepping the crostini for some crispy bruschetta and then got busy rolling out the pastry for 5 large quiches.

Next on the scene was Martin, who joined in the kitchen team alongside the other FoodCycle regulars and there was soon a hive of industry to prepare the tomatoes and salad for the starter, and the roasted veg for the couscous accompaniment to the quiche.

Omar, who had answered a late call for additional volunteers to host the session arrived, and was a whiz at serving the volunteers with pre-service fruit snacks before getting joining the other hosts with serving our guests and clearing up afterwards.

Finally, Faith arrived and was soon elbow deep in a sink full of suds as she had offered to take on the vital role of pot washer today, and was an absolute godsend as she cleaned up the cooking posts and all the dishes and cutlery from the meal. "It was my first time at FoodCycle and I really enjoyed it." she said.

There was lots of positive feedback again from the guests who really enjoyed the meal. Well done team. Another fabulous meal.

I learnt how to prepare some delicious meals, met amazing people, ate, did cleaning. I am very happy with this task. I feel very fulfilled.

7 Luton Goodgymers turned out to support the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat Gudwara with their 2nd of 6 cooking classes. A project bringing communities together by sharing skills, making friendships and creating memories ( and some delicious food). Well done to everyone who attended 👏 👍🏻 🙌

This week our Group Run took us up the hill to the sunny Ferndale Leisure Gardens, an allotment space that had been underused for some time and needs the old plots clearing out of all the old junk collected by past tenants to make inviting open spaces ready for new tenants.

In this visit we tackled a tough patch that we couldn't deal with last time. There was a pile of something buried under thick brambles. This time we brought some clippers to cut away the bramble and gain access. It was a pile of corrugated metal roof panels, old windows and wooden pallets among other random buckets and broken spades and old hose pipe.

With seven of us on the case we managed to extract all the junk and carry it up the hill to the entrance gate and sorted it into piles of wood, plastic and metal which will be collected for recycling.

We'll be back here again in a few weeks because theres plenty more plots that need clearing out!

6 of Luton Goodgyms finest, got stuck in to a cleaning task at the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat Gudwara to prep the kitchen and eating hall area for the cooking classes that will be happening there over the next 3 weeks https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/hosting-a-feast-6be57bdf-fe9b-4780-a0f1-f6e0e3814e52 . Mopping floors, vacuuming carpets, cleaning out fridges, cupboards (inside and out) and getting low down and dirty scrubbing behind the cooking stations. The team left the temple sparkling and ready for the forthcoming events. Well done team 👏 fantastic effort 👌